Improvement in door-checks



1. n. BAXTER. Door-Checks.

No.l50,8l2. l Patented May12,1874.

WITJV'ESSES. TNT/'FN TUR I Attorneys..

PA'IEN FFICEo JOSEPH AR. BAXTER, OF MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOOR-CHECKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,812, dated May 12, 1874 application led April 20, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. BAXTER, of Mercer, in the county of Mercer and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Stop;

and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference' marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

section, showing my invention attached thereto; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the stop.

A represents the door-frame, with carpet strip B and the door C hinged to the frame.W

In the lower edge of the door G is made a recess of suitable dimensions to receive a frame, D, in which is pivoted a curved arm or lever, E. The lower end of the lever E is forked, and in the same is placed a rubber roller, a,

as shown. At the pivot end of the lever E projects an arm, b, to the outer or lower end of which is pivoted a rod or bar, G. This bar extends through a suitable groove made in the lower edge of the door, and its outer end is curved and placed over a pin, d, on the carpet-strip B. The pin d is near the side of the frame where the door is hung, but any suitable distance froln the line of the hinges. When the door is closed, the roller a is drawn up into the recess in the door, and as it opens the roller is thrown down and strikes the iioor, forming a stop for the backward movement of the door. The point at which the door is to be thus stopped is .readily regulated by simply changing the position of the pin Z in the carpet-strip B. l

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

The pivoted lever E, provided with the roller a and arlnb, and arranged in a recess in the lower edge of a door, C, in combination withL the rod G and pin d in the carpet-strip B, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of March, 1874.

JOS EPH R. BAXTER.

Witnesses W. G. FISHER, J. W. BEATY. 

